Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 12:44:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Crontab problems In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Sun, 15 Sep 2002, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Sun, 15 Sep 2002, Nicholas Wourms wrote: > > > Trying to use Windows NotePad, which introduces the whole \r\n deal, > > is friggin' crazy! > > [snip] > > I think you read too much into "use vi". It was simply providing a > > sensible alternative to Windows NotePad which provides the same > > functionality without the need for modifing *working* sources. If > > that doesn't suit you, TextPad looks like a viable alternative... > > > > Cheers, > > Nicholas > > Not to step on anyone's toes (and I really do want to correct this just > for the archives), but EditPad ( http://www.editpadpro.com/ ) offers a > nice alternative to Notepad, and can handle UNIX-style newlines. It even > has a "go to line" feature for programmers. I don't use it to edit > crontabs, but I did use it for perl programs, with great results. > Not all Windows editors are bad. Sorry, couldn't resist giving it a plug. Sorry, didn't see that TextPad reference... My brain's on hold sometimes. Please disregard (you can still try out EditPad, though :-D). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Water molecules expand as they grow warmer" (C) Popular Science, Oct'02, p.51 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/